Sunbury Line

At a glance

Reviewed 2026-11-01.

Status: Operating

Zone. 1 and 2, depending on the station

Sunbury, Diggers Rest, Watergardens, Keilor Plains, St Albans and Ginifer are Zone 2. Albion and Sunshine are Zone 1 and Zone 2. Tottenham, West Footscray, Middle Footscray, Footscray, Arden, Parkville, State Library and Anzac are Zone 1. The guide leaves Town Hall's zone blank.

Recorded 2026-11-01. Metro Trains Melbourne

Trains run from Sunbury through the western suburbs and the Metro Tunnel stations. The zone changes along the line.

What is changing

Stage 1 of Melbourne Airport Rail is the work on this corridor, from West Footscray to Albion, including Sunshine station. On 21 October 2026 Big Build named a preferred bidder for the package that expands that station. A preferred bidder is not a finished station, and the package is not the airport line. The package-by-package account is in the infrastructure section. West Footscray and Tottenham, both on this line, are also stage 1 centres in the train and tram activity-centre program. The account of the 60 centres lists the centres the 2026 explainer names.

Route map

From Sunbury the line runs through Diggers Rest, Watergardens, Keilor Plains, St Albans and Ginifer to Albion, then Sunshine, Tottenham, West Footscray, Middle Footscray and Footscray. From Footscray it enters the Metro Tunnel: Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac.

Stations on the line

Metro’s line guide, checked on 1 November 2026, lists the stations in this order, from Sunbury through to Anzac. Albion, Sunshine, Tottenham, West Footscray and Footscray are the five with pages in this directory.

1. Sunbury
2. Diggers Rest
3. Watergardens
4. Keilor Plains
5. St Albans
6. Ginifer
7. Albion
8. Sunshine
9. Tottenham
10. West Footscray
11. Middle Footscray
12. Footscray
13. Arden
14. Parkville
15. State Library
16. Town Hall
17. Anzac

Services and connections

The guide is the live source for times and disruptions. It now includes the Metro Tunnel stations from Arden to Anzac, and it stops the list at Anzac.

The map above uses one metropolitan route, tagged from Victoria’s GTFS feed: Sunbury to East Pakenham. The same route set includes shorter patterns, among them Watergardens to Cranbourne and West Footscray to Westall. Those are through-routes past Anzac. They are not extra names on the guide’s station list.

Suburbs and areas served

Suburbs in this directory: Albion, Footscray, Sunshine, Tottenham, West Footscray

The suburbs this directory records on the line are Albion, Footscray, Sunshine, Tottenham and West Footscray. The guide’s other station names are not suburb pages here.

Infrastructure projects and upgrades

Works under way

Stage 1 rebuilds more than 6 km between West Footscray and Albion. The February 2026 fact sheet describes that length, and a joint investment of more than $4 billion, including two new regional platforms at Sunshine. On 21 October 2026 Big Build named CPB Contractors and SMEC, as the Network Integration Program Alliance, as preferred bidder for the station package: two new platforms for regional trains, an extended concourse and new forecourts. A preferred bidder is a procurement step. It is not the opening of those platforms.

Not yet committed

Big Build says stage 2 will be complete in 2031. That stage is a line from Albion to Keilor East, with a station at Keilor East. The year is the stated target for stage 2. It is not a date for the station package above, and it is not a train to the airport. The airport connection remains a later stage.

Projects in this directory: Melbourne Airport Rail

History and network changes

The railway reached Sunbury in February 1859, as part of the line being built toward Bendigo. Electrification reached St Albans in October 1921, and was extended to Sydenham on 27 January 2002. The new station there was named Watergardens, and Keilor Plains opened on the same extension. Electrified metropolitan services reached Sunbury in 2012, and on 18 November 2012 the line was renamed from the Sydenham line to the Sunbury line. Those dates are from the Wikipedia article on the line.

Future proposals

Stage 2, from Albion to Keilor East, and the airport connection beyond it, are the two later pieces of Melbourne Airport Rail. The infrastructure section has the target year and the limit on what it applies to. Neither is the package a preferred bidder was named for on 21 October 2026.

Recent verified changes

• 21 October 2026. Big Build named CPB Contractors and SMEC as preferred bidder for the Sunshine station package on this corridor. The announcement is a procurement step. It is not the opening of the new platforms, and it is not the airport line.

Official resources and further reading

Metro publishes the station list, the zone for each station, and the timetables on the Sunbury line guide. Big Build publishes Melbourne Airport Rail and the 21 October 2026 preferred-bidder announcement.

Sources and related entities

• Sunbury line, Metro Trains Melbourne. Station order and zone by station. Checked 1 November 2026.
• Melbourne Airport Rail, Victoria’s Big Build. Stage 1 scope, and the later airport stage.
• Preferred bidder named for Melbourne Airport Rail, Victoria’s Big Build, 21 October 2026. CPB Contractors and SMEC as preferred bidder for the station package. Stage 2, Albion to Keilor East, is stated to be complete in 2031.
• West Footscray to Albion Rail Upgrade, February 2026, Victoria’s Big Build. More than 6 km, a joint investment of more than $4 billion, and two new regional platforms at Sunshine.
• Sunbury railway line, Wikipedia. The 1859 opening, the 1921 electrification to St Albans, the 2002 extension to Watergardens, and the 18 November 2012 renaming.
• Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, retrieved 1 November 2026. The highlight is the route relation named “Metro Tunnel: Sunbury => East Pakenham”, tagged from Victoria’s metropolitan GTFS feed.

Stations in this directory: Albion Station, Footscray Station, Sunshine Station, Tottenham Station, West Footscray Station